Three Ways to Get the Most Bang for Your Marketing Buck at Tradeshows

Tradeshows are a great opportunity to increase your brand awareness and educate both customers and potential customers about your brand. Giveaways are the norm, so you need to create a giveaway that catches your customers’ attention and resonates well with them. A customized, eco-friendly promotional product that your customers can use again and again will help you achieve this goal.

How to Start a Plastic Bag Ban in Your Hometown

There are lots of reasons to implement a ban, so you just need to determine what the reason is for your hometown. When you understand the “why” behind the ban, you can create a campaign and explain to everyone from residents and neighbors to businesses and politicians why a ban is a good fit.

What’s The Difference Between Factory Direct and Wholesale?

What’s The Difference Between Factory Direct and Wholesale?

The differences between factory direct and wholesale can be confusing, and when you are shopping around for a promotional product to represent your brand and help spread the word about your company, trying to decipher the differences can seem like one more issue you have to work through.

3 Ways a Custom Bag Benefits Your Bottom Line

3 Ways a Custom Bag Benefits Your Bottom Line

There are a lot of advantages to marketing your brand with customized reusable bags. The primary advantage most people think of is the environmental impact as reusable bags do away with, or at least greatly reduce, the need for single-use bags. Single-use plastic bags can cause a lot of harm since they are seldom recycled and do not safely breakdown, pollute our environment and cause harm to wildlife.

Give Your Customers Something to Remember You By

Give Your Customers Something to Remember You By

Print your logo on reusable paper bags to hand out to your customers when they make a purchase at your store or to carry leftovers home from your restaurant. These durable bags will come in handy and put your logo and business information on display as your customers carry your bag. Think about offering a discount to customers who bring your custom branded reusable paper bag back the next time they visit your store to carry items home – you can print these instructions on the bag to encourage repeat business and repeat use of these eco bags.

Why Do Single-Use Plastic Bag Bans Fail?

Why Do Single-Use Plastic Bag Bans Fail?

Single use plastic bag bans make so much sense from an environmental perspective since they reduce use of fossil fuels, reduce the eyesore that is litter, and protect animals and their habitats from stray plastic bags and their pieces that can easily be mistaken for food or entangle an animal, ending its life. Large chains and small local retailers also spend a substantial amount of money of these disposable nuisances, so implementing a ban saves retailers money, and that cost savings should be reflected in their prices. Despite the best of intentions though, sometime

How A Useful Design and Demographics Will Get Your Brand Noticed

How A Useful Design and Demographics Will Get Your Brand Noticed

Reusable bags come in an almost countless variety of shapes and sizes and one popular design that is extremely functional and offers high visibility is the messenger bag. Based on the demographic your brand is trying to reach, a messenger bag can be an extremely suitable reusable bag that will clearly display your logo and branding message each and every time your customers use your customized bag.

How to Tell Your Brand’s Story without Saying a Word

How to Tell Your Brand’s Story without Saying a Word

The promotional products you use to market your business, brand or organization say a lot about your company and the products or services you provide. These items will speak for your company, so make sure they say the right things and set the right tone for your business. The words and slogans you choose to print on your bags clearly make a statement, but the material the reusable bags are constructed from also tell a story. Stay true to your environmental goals and beliefs by creating promotional reusable bags made from biodegradable materials.

What to Look for When Designing Your Promotional Reusable Bag

What to Look for When Designing Your Promotional Reusable Bag

A lot of companies offer you the ability to design your own promotional bags. Reusable bags are a fantastic way to promote your brand because they are designed to be used again and again and every time they are used they spread your branding message. Reusable grocery bags are kind of like mobile billboards – customers and potential customers will see them and learn about your brand and the products or services you offer.

Brookline Bans Disposable Plastic Bags and Styrofoam Food Containers

Brookline Bans Disposable Plastic Bags and Styrofoam Food Containers

Beginning in December 2013 plastic shopping bags will no longer be allowed in Brookline, Massachusetts. About 73% of the town meeting members voted in favor of the ban that would prevent many stores from handing out disposable polyethylene bags. Plastic bags that are compostable and marine-degradable will still be allowed since they do not pose a risk to the environment and animals that call the area home. Read more about this town’s progress towards going reusable.

Happy Holidays from Factory Direct Promos

Happy Holidays from Factory Direct Promos

The holidays are typically a time to reflect on the year that was and look ahead to the coming year. This past year has been fantastic for FDP – we released our list of the Top 100 Green Influencers of 2012, as well as our interactive bag ban map and more recently our highly successful […]

Custom Cooler Bags Are a Great Way to Increase Your Brand Recognition

Custom Cooler Bags Are a Great Way to Increase Your Brand Recognition

Cooler bags are so much more versatile than many people may realize. Insulated bags are great for taking on trips and keeping drinks chilled at a party, but you can also leave an insulated custom cooler bag in the car to keep frozen items cold on the drive home from the store or use an insulated bag to keep take-out warm until you get it on the table. A reusable cooler bag is also great for bringing a hot or cold dish to a party or to a potluck. Our reusable cooler bags are soft sided so after cleanup they take up minimal space and easily stow under a seat in your car or in a closet or pantry when not in use.

Spread Your Branding Message with Eco Friendly Jute Bags

Spread Your Branding Message with Eco Friendly Jute Bags

Have you considered constructing your next custom reusable bag from jute? Seems like the perfect option in this day of eco-friendly business practices right? Since jute is a natural plant fiber it is biodegradable,  it is a great material for promoting your brand without harming the environment. Want to know more about protecting the planet while you build your brand?  Keep reading to learn more about jute and how you can utilize this fantastic plant material to grow and market your brand, business or organization.

Give the Gift of a Plastic-Free World This Holiday and Join the Plastic Bag Ban Movement

Give the Gift of a Plastic-Free World This Holiday and Join the Plastic Bag Ban Movement

Factory Direct Promos is hosting a blog carnival to raise awareness about why it is important to use reusable bags. We are showcasing blog posts from a variety of amazing and talented writers who took the time to share and discuss with their readers and us the environmental necessity of taking action and putting an end to the use of disposable plastic bags. We are thrilled at the response and the turnout of really great and thought provoking posts we’ve received.

How to Market Your Brand with Custom Grocery Bags

How to Market Your Brand with Custom Grocery Bags

There is an ever-growing movement to ban disposable plastic shopping bags which means there is an increased need for reusable grocery bags. Creating a custom grocery bag to market your brand lets you distribute your branding message to your customers and potential customers alike, while also helping consumers adhere to laws preventing the use of disposable bags. Even in places that do not have plastic bag bans yet, there is still a raised consciousness about the need for reusable shopping bags, so your custom bag and your branding message will still be put into use and be put on display.

Eco Drinkware Puts Your Branding Message in Your Customer’s Hands

Eco Drinkware Puts Your Branding Message in Your Customer’s Hands

Everywhere you look people are toting their morning coffee or tea in eco friendly mugs or carrying a reusable water bottle with them. You can hardly go anyplace without seeing reusable drinkware – at the office and the gym and just about everyplace in between. Any type of reusable cup or mug is a prime opportunity to market your brand in a highly visible manner.

Ongoing Plastic Shopping Bag Saga Finds Toronto Bag Ban Overturned…For Now

Ongoing Plastic Shopping Bag Saga Finds Toronto Bag Ban Overturned…For Now

When Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford, attempted to do away with a 5-cent fee that was levied on plastic shopping bags handed out at stores within the city that set off a surprising turn of events. The mayor’s proposal to end the fee and just as quickly proposed and passed an outright ban on plastic shopping bags clearing the way for reusable shopping bags. The bag ban was scheduled to begin on January 1, 2013, but once again the plan has changed.

Plastic Pollution and the Impact on the Food Chain

Plastic Pollution and the Impact on the Food Chain

Plastic bag recycling is often touted as a solution to the environmental damage caused by plastic bags, but it just isn’t that simple. Through increased education and outreach programs, plastic bag recycling is in fact on the rise. However, recycling plastic bags is not as efficient (they get stuck in the machinery) or effective as recycling other materials such as paper or glass. There are a wide variety of plastics out there and different types of plastic require different handling and processing for recycling. Throw into the mix the fact that plastic bags are often contaminated with food or other forms of waste, which complicates the handling and recycling process, and what seemed like a good idea, becomes a massive undertaking.